Mount Cannon
Mount Cannon rises to 2,691 m in Montana. Mount Jackson stands 3,064 m to the south-southeast, 6.8 miles off. The nearest named place is Clements Mountain, a peak 1.5 miles away.
The story
Mount Cannon (8,956 feet (2,730 m)) is located in the Lewis Range, Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. Formerly called Goat Mountain it was renamed for the leading physiologist Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon and his wife Cornelia, who made the first recorded ascent of the mountain in 1901.
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Wikidata Q6919979, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 2691 m
How to reach it
Named places within 25 miles
- Clements Mountain: 1.5 mi
- Bearhat Mountain: 1.8 mi
- Mount Oberlin: 2.0 mi
- Reynolds Mountain: 2.7 mi
- Haystack Butte: 3.4 mi
- Bird Woman Falls: 1.6 mi
- Red Rock Falls: 2.0 mi
- Oberlin Falls: 2.4 mi
- Monument Falls: 3.0 mi
- Haystack Creek Falls: 3.5 mi
- Glacier Wall: 2.3 mi
- Dragon’s Tail: 2.9 mi
- Grinnell Point: 7.8 mi
- McGee Hill: 13.6 mi
- Carnelian Cliff: 15.6 mi
- Weeping Wall: 3.2 mi
- Weeping Wall: 3.5 mi
- Great Northern Railway Buildings: 5.4 mi
- Glacier Highline: 22.5 mi
- Apgar Picnic Area: 14.7 mi
- Great Northern Flats: 18.3 mi
- Malmstrom Air Force Base Recreation Area: 17.6 mi
- Belton Stage Park: 17.7 mi
- Silver Dollar Beach: 11.0 mi
- North American Wildlife Museum: 22.4 mi
- Coram Experimental Forest: 22.6 mi
Other summits around it
The highest named summits within 11.8 miles of Mount Cannon. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Jackson | SSE 159° | 3,064 m | 6.8 mi |
| Mount Siyeh | ENE 66° | 3,052 m | 6.2 mi |
| Cracker Benchmark | ENE 66° | 2,992 m | 6.8 mi |
| Going-to-the-Sun Mountain | E 91° | 2,939 m | 6.3 mi |
| Ipasha Peak | N 357° | 2,913 m | 11.0 mi |
| Mount Gould | NE 38° | 2,911 m | 4.4 mi |
| Blackfoot Mountain | SSE 148° | 2,909 m | 9.1 mi |
| Little Chief Mountain | ESE 112° | 2,867 m | 8.8 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:39 | 19:06 | 19:48 |
| June solstice | 05:33 | 20:53 | 21:42 |
| September equinox | 07:22 | 18:53 | 19:35 |
| December solstice | 08:26 | 15:47 | 16:42 |
Local time (America/Denver).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Jun–Sep.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 23 | 23 | 29 | 37 | 46 | 52 | 60 | 59 | 51 | 40 | 31 | 24 |
| Precip in | 2.1 | 2.1 | 2.5 | 2.5 | 2.8 | 3.1 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 2.2 | 2.7 | 2.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — ST. Mary 1 SSW, 16 mi away.
Inside the official boundary of Glacier National Park. Quietest months by visitation: Feb and Jan; busiest: Jul.
NPS visitation statistics, monthly averages 2021–2025 (2020 excluded).
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOpenStreetMap element node/357924567
Day trips start here
- Glacier National Park · 1 mi
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